Photos: Smokejumpers preparing for fire battles

This is a Shorts Brothers C-23 Sherpa, another Smokejumpers plane used by the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula, Mont.

The plane can carry a 14-person crew, 10 of whom are two-person Smokejumper teams, two of whom are pilots and two of whom are spotters.

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Photo by Daniel Terdiman/CNET